A method for automatically selecting and organizing a subset of photos from a set of photos provided by a user, who has an account on at least one social network providing some context, for creating a summarized photo album with a storytelling structure. The method comprises: arranging the set of photos into a three level hierarchy, acts, scenes and shots; checking whether photos are photos with people or not; obtaining an aesthetic measure of the photos; creating and ranking face clusters; selecting the most aesthetic photo of each face cluster; selecting photos with people until complete a predefined number of photos of the summarized album picking the ones which optimize the function:Of(C,C*,S,CSN)=αfAf(S)−γfd(HCharacter(S)HCharacter(C∪CSN)−δfd(HAct(S),HAct(C*));and then selecting non-people photos which minimize the following function Oa:Oa(C*,S)=d(HAct,(S),HAct(C*));ordering all the selected photos in chronological order; and finally discarding all the photos which have not been selected.
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2. The method according to claim 1 further comprising, if the number of character photos are less than n, selecting people photos for the subset of photos until reach n.
3. The method according to claim 2 further comprising, if the number of people photos are less than n, selecting non-people photos for the subset of photos according to their aesthetic measure until reach n.
4. The method according to claim 3 wherein n, the number of people photos desired, is obtained multiplying k by the proportion of people photos in user's social network photos and the set of photos.
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May 2, 2011
January 1, 2013
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